there wasn’t even any beer involved

These are the people that I went to Chicago with recently. They look like a nice enough group, don’t they? Ok, well maybe not the guy with all those tattoos…

They don’t look at all like the kind of people who would let the waitress at Bubba Gump’s – on Navy Pier, in downtown Chicago, with what felt like several hundred people in the immediate vicinity – know that it was your birthday so that then said waitress could make you stand on a chair and dance while she led the staff and other dining patrons in a rousing birthday song/cheer: